Two stereo cards portraying football at Eton School in 1858, publisher unknown, pasted captions to the reverse the first reads FOOT BALL MATCH, AT ETO

Two stereo cards portraying football at Eton School in 1858, publisher unknown, pasted captions to the reverse the first reads FOOT BALL MATCH, AT ETON, 1858, THE OPPIDANS, Mr V W B VAN DE WEYER, HON C G LYTTELTON, SIR F JOHNSTONE, MR M HANKEY, MR M LUBBOCK, HON G CADOGAN, E W CHAPMAN, E FOLLETT & P RHODES (THE UMPIRE AND TWO OTHER GENTLEMEN ARE NOT IN THE GROUP); the second card reads FOOT BALL AT ETON, 1858 There were two codes of football devised and played at Eton College - The Field Game and The Wall Game. The first football rules were documented at Eton in 1815, 48 years before the Football Association unified the various codes that had evolved independently at institutions around the country. The Oppidans team included amongst their number young gentlemen who became notable sportsmen including Edgar Lubbock who played in the historic first F.A. Cup Final in 1872 for Wanderers and other early Cup finals and was twice a winner. He was also played in 3 first-class cricket matches and was Master of the Blankney Hounds. Charles Lyttelton from the famous cricketing family who as well as playing First Class Cricket was responsible for unifying the laws of lawn tennis in 1875; Sir Frank Johnstone became a leading racehorse owner and won the Derby twice with St Blaise and Common.